I'm running gnome on amd64. After installation of media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera the font in all running (and new) terminals is changed to some large and ugly font. The gnome panel reloads too, I guess its font is change too, but it's not that visible. This shouldn't happen, the default font should stay what it is unless I change it. 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Reassigning to x11 since gnome doesn't want it. I should add that I saw this bug on several systems.
The default font in Gnome is "Sans". Since we ship a fontconfig configuration that puts the Vera fonts above other fonts, the UI will redraw when the font appears. If you don't like that behavior (although I doubt you merge/unmerge fonts everyday) is to tell Gnome you want a specific font instead of "Sans". Thanks
Sorry if the CCing annoys you, but I don't see another to make sure you get my answer. (In reply to comment #2) > Since we ship a fontconfig configuration that puts the Vera fonts above other > fonts, the UI will redraw when the font appears. And why do you did this without depending on these fonts? >(although I doubt you merge/unmerge fonts > everyday) Of course I don't do this everyday, but if a dep of a package I want to have a short look into, depends on this font, the last thing I want to do is a) have my fonts changed and b) bother with fixing them.
> Sorry if the CCing annoys you, but I don't see another to make sure you get my > answer. I'm on the x11 alias. Forcing a CC like that is rude. Please don't do it again. (In reply to comment #3) > And why do you did this without depending on these fonts? That's a user preference. In other words, it's not our business. Fontconfig is meant to be completely dynamic. Just take a look at "eselect fontconfig" for the kinds of options it supports. > Of course I don't do this everyday, but if a dep of a package I want to have a > short look into, depends on this font, the last thing I want to do is a) have > my fonts changed and b) bother with fixing them. Then like I said, set your fonts to a real font, not an alias and you won't be bothered ever again.
See also bug 130466, that proposes to make the highest priority for these aliases be DejaVu fonts instead of Bitstream Vera ones. But I think you are trying to use something completely else, and didn't have neither bitstream-vera nor dejavu installed before, as DejaVu is based on bitstream-vera. Commands like "fc-match sans" would tell what the alias use picks at the time, based on fontconfig configuration in /etc/fonts/conf.d (tweaked with eselect as commented above). /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf probably is used for you to pick the first available font out of the ones listed for the serif, sans-serif (aliased to sans) and monospace aliased font names.
